New updates for breakout rooms
Teams breakout rooms was released a couple of months ago and there been many requests for more features and settings for breakout rooms. Here is a summary of what is coming. In Message Center...
Category: Microsoft Teams
Teams Large meetings
Microsoft will increase the participant limit from 300 to 1000 participants. 1000 participants will be able to join the interactive Teams meeting and the meeting chat, what also will support 1000 chat participants. If...
Start Teams Meet Now from Outlook
You can now start an ad-hoc “Meet now” meeting from your Outlook client. In your Outlook calendar tab, you should see the Meet now button. When you click that button a new meeting will...
Channel calendar in Teams
It is now possible to add a shared calendar in a Teams channel ( Roadmap 68911 ). The channel calendar is a new tab that shows all scheduled Teams meeting scheduled within that channel....
New meeting options for managing large Teams meetings
When you schedule a Teams meeting in Outlook with more that 40 participants or 10 distribution lists you will get an notification that reminds you to set meeting options. In the meeting options you...
Polls in Teams meetings
Polls in meetings will be released soon, late November to mid-December is the current listed rollout period. It will be rolled out server-side but in combination with that you need a update Windows or...
Meeting options available in Teams meetings
Meeting options are now available in Teams meeting so you don’t have to open meeting options in a web browser. You find Meeting options in the More actions menu (…). Meeting options will open...
Teams recordings in OneDrive/SharePoint
Microsoft announced during Ignite that Teams recordings will be saved in OneDrive/SharePoint instead of Microsoft Stream. Today when you record a meeting (or call) in Teams it will be recorded in Azure Media Services...
Ignite 2020: Advanced calling capabilities
In the Ignite session Advanced calling capabilities Roy Kuntz and Alan Xie showed what is coming to Microsoft Teams when it comes to calling. Modern calls app Modern calls app is a rebuilt calling...
Ignite 2020 – New Teams features
As a start of Ignite, Microsoft released a blog article with new features coming to Microsoft Teams. Many useful features that I summarize here. Storing Teams recordings in OneDrive Today when your record a...
